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  • A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

    August 08, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

    The over-prescription of pain medicine has been a problem in southwest Colorado. Collective efforts of health care providers to standardize opioid prescriptions, clinics to expand recovery programs, and law enforcement to encourage addicts to enter rehab rather than prison, have reduced over-prescriptions of pain medications. However, they also could be unintentionally causing a rise in heroin use.

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  • Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

    July 21, 2016 |

    The Roanoke Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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  • Health officials are trying to curtail violence by treating trauma, but the people who need help most are not seeking it

    July 16, 2016 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore and other cities saw an increase in violence and individuals repeatedly ending up in the hospital with serious injuries, which mass jailing did not solve, leading to the creation of Shock Trauma's Violence Intervention program. This program's specialist-Ross assesses and tries to convince victims of violence to enter the program which helps them deal with their past trauma in order not to retaliate and instigate more violence, for those who engage in the program it is quite successful.

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  • How A Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away From ISIS

    July 15, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Aarhus

    Muslim youths in Denmark were leaving to join ISIS in Syria, feeling they were being persecuted in Europe. Then the police in Aarhus responded in a completely unexpected way: They apologized.

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  • With trust and street cred, organizer works to change lives in north Minneapolis

    July 06, 2016 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Gang violence in Minneapolis has caused many gun-related deaths and the destruction of families. One community organizer, a former gang-member and drug dealer, builds trust with at-risk youth that are on the edge. He visits kids, helps them get to job interviews, reviews homework, and listens to their individual struggles.

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  • What could actually work to fix gun violence in America – and what doesn't

    June 23, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In the wake of high-profile shootings, proposals such as banning assault weapons gain momentum. But there are solutions few national politicians are looking at that take a very different tack.

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  • Focused crime strategy finds early success. Can it work in Milwaukee?

    June 18, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    A law-enforcement strategy known as the "focused deterrence" approach involves identifying people most at risk to commit or to be victimized by crime — often the same individuals — and hosts meetings where they are offered resources to break the cycle, or, face serious legal consequences. The approach has worked so well in places like Kansas City, Boston, and High Point, that Milwaukee is looking at how to replicate the results.

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  • How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation's Most Dangerous Neighborhood

    June 16, 2016 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Cincinnati Center City Development Corp., a local NGO, has invested more than half a billion dollars into what was once the city's most dangerous neighborhood - and now is comparable to Greenwich Village.

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  • Do gun control debates ever change anything? In these countries they did.

    June 13, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States

    Mass shootings in the United States spur calls for gun control regulation, but do gun control regulations work? In Australia, Scotland, and Finland, they have reduced gun-related crimes through buyback programs, banning civilians from owning guns, and raising the minimum age for owning guns.

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  • Federal gun prosecutions fall, even as Milwaukee crime rises

    June 11, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    With shooting deaths soaring in Milwaukee, gun cases have swamped the county courts, but there has been no similar spike in federal firearm prosecutions. In fact, the opposite occurred last year.

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